The "Brains" thing is interesting in how illogical it is (within the rules of the genre) - zombies are killed most easily by destroying the brain, so if they ate brains instead of flesh then their numbers wouldn't increase geometrically (given the chance), and thus probably not be much of a threat.

that's why i don't get criticism of fast zombies as unrealistic in a zombie universe. yeah, slow zombies are waaaaaaaaaay more scary than fast zombies, but fast zombies are also canon.

/i also don't get criticism of the intelligent zombies of the first season of the tv version of Walking Dead//if the lizard part of the brain survives, why not rudimentary tool manipulation and memory in the fresh corpse?

I've seen none of the mentioned movies, they're not my thing. (seen the first Resident Evil movie) I still think of zombies as reanimated corpses, as that's my D&D background. Also in WoW, the zombies are mindless undead, the lowest level of Scourge forces.

that's why i don't get criticism of fast zombies as unrealistic in a zombie universe. yeah, slow zombies are waaaaaaaaaay more scary than fast zombies, but fast zombies are also canon.

/i also don't get criticism of the intelligent zombies of the first season of the tv version of Walking Dead//if the lizard part of the brain survives, why not rudimentary tool manipulation and memory in the fresh corpse?

I always wondered about the justification of zombies wanting to eat our flesh. If they are alive with the drive to feed, wouldn't a lifetime of eating other food stuffs be what motivates them? It makes more sense for them to gravitate towards shopping malls, and stores where food and entertainment were readily available in life. Nothing about us in our lived experiences would drive us to eat each other once dead.I'd expect to see a Safeway full of frustrated zombies clawing at the ice cream coolers as they moaned out in longing for just one more scoop of rocky road.

Old enough to know better:I've always preferred the classic slow Romero/Walking Dead zombie. None of this silly infected bite stuff. Any dead person would simply get back up after a few minutes unless you destroyed the head.

And don't get me started on the whole "Braaaains" BS.

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In my short story, "Love in the Time of Zombies", the zombism is a viral thing. People who are bitten are shortly overcome by the disease, and driven mad. They're fast zombies. They're also technically still alive, so can be put down by a center of mass shot, or eventual starvation. After a little while, they get back up and wander around as slow, undead zombies. Older ones are a bit smarter, sometimes playing dead and ambushing people walking by the unmoving corpse.

1968-1984: George A. Romero makes his mark-- Night of the living dead, its addition to public domain, various "night" ripoffs-- We have to pretend there was more to it than the previous bullet point because we're not paid if we don't make the minimum word-count

1985: Woah, look, no one cares now-- shiat no one gave a fark about at the time and even fewer farks are given about this film and its spinoffs now

1985-2001: No one still cares-- Hey, that one's pretty goo- no, wait, still boring shiat no one gives a fark about-- More insignificant movies that made essentially zero impact on literature-- even romero ran out of ideas after the second movie, what do you want from us here?-- Honestly, this period didn't even have proper exploitation cinema, and you expect us to come up with good zombie movies from the one period in cinema history that could make Tarantino look like something other than a hack? fark this, man, we quit.

2002-2012: Like, one dude cares, maybe, when he can be bothered-- 28 days later was OK I guess-- Nope, nothing else anyone cares about-- Hell, most of these were box office bombs even at the time, but now... man, just straight embarrassing to even pretend they contributed to cinema in any way-- I mean, come the fark on, most of these make art school half-term projects by sophomores look like Citizen Kane

2013-: People will continue to give zero farks-- Wait, is it possible to give negative farks? Like, the "superman spinning around the earth so hard time goes backward" of fark-giving?-- Because we're reduced to shamelessly plugging a romantic comedy so shiatty it had to resort to the "Pride and Prejudice with Zombies" shiat. I don't even thing superman could manage that one.-- It's somehow even more embarassing even than the "in SPAAAAAAAAACE" shiat from the 50s/60s. At least that was rooted in a distinct pulp tradition instead of just milking the wallets of exceptionally stupid 30 year olds in argyle vests with false pretensions of culture.-- Seriously, please just firebomb our offices, this job is slowly killing our souls and we can only beg for a mercy stroke-- Oh god I wrote a whole article endorsing a Nicholas Holt vehicle, for the love of god kill me before I start trying to carve my own brains out with a spoon.

Creativity-wise the zombie genre is at the point in the Porn Career Arc where it is reduced to blowing farm animals on a webcam for meth.

The concept needs to lie fallow for a few years, but, cash-cow-wise the genre is roaring along, so we'll soon see a lot more "Warm Bodies" style material. Once we see the Buddy Cop flick where one cop is a zombie, the Group of Friends Hang Out sitcom where at least one friend is a zombie and, the final death knell, the CBS police procedural CSI: Braaaaains.

Mr. Coffee Nerves:Creativity-wise the zombie genre is at the point in the Porn Career Arc where it is reduced to blowing farm animals on a webcam for meth.

The concept needs to lie fallow for a few years, but, cash-cow-wise the genre is roaring along, so we'll soon see a lot more "Warm Bodies" style material. Once we see the Buddy Cop flick where one cop is a zombie, the Group of Friends Hang Out sitcom where at least one friend is a zombie and, the final death knell, the CBS police procedural CSI: Braaaaains.

They had 'Dead Heat', with cops that became zombies, with Joe Piscopo..

Alphax:Mr. Coffee Nerves: Creativity-wise the zombie genre is at the point in the Porn Career Arc where it is reduced to blowing farm animals on a webcam for meth.

The concept needs to lie fallow for a few years, but, cash-cow-wise the genre is roaring along, so we'll soon see a lot more "Warm Bodies" style material. Once we see the Buddy Cop flick where one cop is a zombie, the Group of Friends Hang Out sitcom where at least one friend is a zombie and, the final death knell, the CBS police procedural CSI: Braaaaains.

They had 'Dead Heat', with cops that became zombies, with Joe Piscopo..

FullMetalPanda:Alphax: Mr. Coffee Nerves: Creativity-wise the zombie genre is at the point in the Porn Career Arc where it is reduced to blowing farm animals on a webcam for meth.

The concept needs to lie fallow for a few years, but, cash-cow-wise the genre is roaring along, so we'll soon see a lot more "Warm Bodies" style material. Once we see the Buddy Cop flick where one cop is a zombie, the Group of Friends Hang Out sitcom where at least one friend is a zombie and, the final death knell, the CBS police procedural CSI: Braaaaains.

They had 'Dead Heat', with cops that became zombies, with Joe Piscopo..

I liked 'Dead Heat'!!!

The part that stuck out for me was when the whole butcher shop worth of animals comes back to life to attack the heroes. Mostly headless pigs and chickens, I think.

1968-1984: George A. Romero makes his mark-- Night of the living dead, its addition to public domain, various "night" ripoffs-- We have to pretend there was more to it than the previous bullet point because we're not paid if we don't make the minimum word-count

1985: Woah, look, no one cares now-- shiat no one gave a fark about at the time and even fewer farks are given about this film and its spinoffs now

1985-2001: No one still cares-- Hey, that one's pretty goo- no, wait, still boring shiat no one gives a fark about-- More insignificant movies that made essentially zero impact on literature-- even romero ran out of ideas after the second movie, what do you want from us here?-- Honestly, this period didn't even have proper exploitation cinema, and you expect us to come up with good zombie movies from the one period in cinema history that could make Tarantino look like something other than a hack? fark this, man, we quit.

2002-2012: Like, one dude cares, maybe, when he can be bothered-- 28 days later was OK I guess-- Nope, nothing else anyone cares about-- Hell, most of these were box office bombs even at the time, but now... man, just straight embarrassing to even pretend they contributed to cinema in any way-- I mean, come the fark on, most of these make art school half-term projects by sophomores look like Citizen Kane

2013-: People will continue to give zero farks-- Wait, is it possible to give negative farks? Like, the "superman spinning around the earth so hard time goes backward" of fark-giving?-- Because we're reduced to shamelessly plugging a romantic comedy so shiatty it had to resort to the "Pride and Prejudice with Zombies" shiat. I don't even thing superman could manage that one.-- It's somehow even more embarassing even than th ...

Uh-huh... so the world should care only for what you care about? That review is completely in your limited world-view. Obviously there are enough people that care to:A) Get more movies made... I sorta doubt studios are going to throw lots of money at frequently making zombie movies if no one is watching them;B) People go to these movies and buy the DVDs, etc... but since no one cares, I guess it's the studio that's sending their employees to the theaters and DVD racks to buy the stuff, huh?C) Stories like this are written and people click on it and it's posted to places like farkD) You cared enough to post your tunnel vision view of the world.

So your argument is totally invalid, even by your own action of posting. Your fail is complete, my son... you make me proud!

Wolf892:ExperianScaresCthulhu: MagSeven: Romero's first "Zombie" was a running zombie.

that's why i don't get criticism of fast zombies as unrealistic in a zombie universe. yeah, slow zombies are waaaaaaaaaay more scary than fast zombies, but fast zombies are also canon.

/i also don't get criticism of the intelligent zombies of the first season of the tv version of Walking Dead//if the lizard part of the brain survives, why not rudimentary tool manipulation and memory in the fresh corpse?

I always wondered about the justification of zombies wanting to eat our flesh. If they are alive with the drive to feed, wouldn't a lifetime of eating other food stuffs be what motivates them? It makes more sense for them to gravitate towards shopping malls, and stores where food and entertainment were readily available in life. Nothing about us in our lived experiences would drive us to eat each other once dead.I'd expect to see a Safeway full of frustrated zombies clawing at the ice cream coolers as they moaned out in longing for just one more scoop of rocky road.

That would be a great concept for a movie.

The world is infested with zombies, but they're not dangerous; just really greedy.

That having been said, what's up with the ten thousand zombie movies being made lately? Haven't seen many horror movies lately that weren't zombies or torture porn. I guess Twilight killed vampires for now.

xria:The "Brains" thing is interesting in how illogical it is (within the rules of the genre) - zombies are killed most easily by destroying the brain, so if they ate brains instead of flesh then their numbers wouldn't increase geometrically (given the chance), and thus probably not be much of a threat.

Except that in the Return of the Living Dead series, the zombies were still "alive" even if you shot them in the head, or totally dismembered them. I think in the second film they could be killed by electrocution.

/ also, that series was a comedy, and the brains thing was supposed to be funny

1968-1984: George A. Romero makes his mark-- Night of the living dead, its addition to public domain, various "night" ripoffs-- We have to pretend there was more to it than the previous bullet point because we're not paid if we don't make the minimum word-count

1985: Woah, look, no one cares now-- shiat no one gave a fark about at the time and even fewer farks are given about this film and its spinoffs now

1985-2001: No one still cares-- Hey, that one's pretty goo- no, wait, still boring shiat no one gives a fark about-- More insignificant movies that made essentially zero impact on literature-- even romero ran out of ideas after the second movie, what do you want from us here?-- Honestly, this period didn't even have proper exploitation cinema, and you expect us to come up with good zombie movies from the one period in cinema history that could make Tarantino look like something other than a hack? fark this, man, we quit.

2002-2012: Like, one dude cares, maybe, when he can be bothered-- 28 days later was OK I guess-- Nope, nothing else anyone cares about-- Hell, most of these were box office bombs even at the time, but now... man, just straight embarrassing to even pretend they contributed to cinema in any way-- I mean, come the fark on, most of these make art school half-term projects by sophomores look like Citizen Kane

2013-: People will continue to give zero farks-- Wait, is it possible to give negative farks? Like, the "superman spinning around the earth so hard time goes backward" of fark-giving?-- Because we're reduced to shamelessly plugging a romantic comedy so shiatty it had to resort to the "Pride and Prejudice with Zombies" shiat. I don't even thing superman could manage that one.-- It's somehow even more embarassing even than th ...

That was terribly unfunny. "I don't like it therefore nobody like it".

Has anyone actually seen "Warm Bodies"? I don't have much to do today and it is playing in the theater need my house. I'm thinking about giving it a shot. It has a RT score in the 70s last time I checked.

EddieFC:Has anyone actually seen "Warm Bodies"? I don't have much to do today and it is playing in the theater need my house. I'm thinking about giving it a shot. It has a RT score in the 70s last time I checked.

EddieFC:Has anyone actually seen "Warm Bodies"? I don't have much to do today and it is playing in the theater need my house. I'm thinking about giving it a shot. It has a RT score in the 70s last time I checked.

I just saw it .. thought it was pretty good myself. An interesting mix of funny, weird, and sweet ... not much for horror though if that's what you like zombies for.